Ebooks of interest

Plus inanimate objects like rocks and sticks.

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Guido
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Reply to
Mike Henry

You've done a good job of that yourself everywhere you have worked.

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Jessica Wabbit

Oooh, THAT is not something I like. Take forever to email everything I wanted to load up. Ok, I'll just sit back on the sidelines and watch them evolve a bit more.

Jon

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Jon Anderson

He has me confused with someone else. Not surprising he was told that the mercury was to be applied externally as a cure for his syphilis, but he still persists in drink it.

Reply to
Guido

We had one person posting here back a few years called Hamei I think. At some point he decided to have himself a big adventure and went to China, which is a lot more cool than anything gumbo has ever done.

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Jessica Wabbit

Yeah well I thought that he might have been confusing me with Hamei too. But for him to do that he'd have to be well in his dotage.

Bambi brags about being a child killer does that count?

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Guido

I just got the $139 Kindle 3 to play with.

Let me just start by saying that the PDF 28th Machinery's Handbook works very well on this thing. That alone would justify it as a shop tool. You can fit the pages to the screen and read them with your magnifier headset. This book is not otherwise available as an ebook.

My other justification was I could flop on the couch and read all those

500-page software manuals in PDF format such as one finds on e.b.e- ebook.technical, without having to print them out or perch a hot-heavy- corded laptop on my abdomen. Copying the actual PDF files is easy, as the device plugs into USB as an ordinary simple storage device.

Some PDFs are quite suitable, such as small-format books that were scanned as bitmaps. These work almost like a native ebook format, the pages fitting nicely into the screen size.

Larger formats like magazines and the Osprey military books, in PDF, are readable, but kind of clumsy with the keyhole effect of the 600x800 display. What works best is to rotate the view into landscape mode, which can fit the page to the width of the screen.

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Richard J Kinch

No, no, no. The $139 Kindle 3 works natively with PDFs. You just connect it to your PC via USB, copy the PDF file into it like a USB drive, and its on there.

Reply to
Richard J Kinch

Nope. Kindle 3 takes pdf files straight from the PC. No email-conversion required. ...albeit with the user-interface deficiencies I noted earlier.

-- Jeff R.

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Jeff R.

Most military manuals are free for download from .mil and .gov websites. You can order paper in the mail for not much.

Where is the theft?

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Winston_Smith

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That can preserve the data -- but how long will there be compatible eBook readers to use those formats? There is a lot of computer media which can't be read which is less than 50 years old.

How many of you have the ability to read punched tape formats? (Let's see -- the common ones are 5-level Baudot, and 8-level ASCII punched tape (from Teletypes and the like), but there are also other bit codes which used the 8-level punched tape, such as the Freiden Flexowriter (Sort of an 8-bit version of EBCDIC, but with shift-up and shift-down codes needed)

And how many people have the equipment to play 78 RPM records these days? (Let alone Edison cylinder recordings?)

And if you do -- how long will the sylus last on your turntable?

How many have reel-to-reel magnetic tape recorders?

How about wire recorders?

Amy movies in Beta format?

How about the large video disk format?

There are amazing collections of media which are no longer readable in a practical sense.

For that matter -- how long will CD and DVD recorders be available?

How many still have 5-1/4" floppy drives on their computers? (3-1/2" ones are fading away too, and what about 8" ones? I still have those, but I would have to work to restart the machines which use the 8" floppys.

However -- print still works, as long as you have light (and know how to read, of course). :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

I have at least a dozen turntables that will play 78s.

They are still being made.

A couple. And a broadcast cart machine.

Lost it in a rental warehouse when I got sick.

180 KB, 360KB, 720 KB and 1.2MB 5.25".
720 KB, 808 KB and 1.44 MB 3.5".

I still have some half height double sided 8" floppy drives that don't need AC power, and some floppies.

And the ink hasn't faded. :(

Reply to
Michael A. Terrell

Saw a cute USB turntable in Target a while back.

The rest of the rant?

I'd give it a solid 5.

Reply to
CaveLamb

Uh, well, I do! Victrola sitting right next to my desk here. Even have some new needles. Maybe one of these days I'll see about trying to record some of the records I have. There's some real classic stuff, Eddie Cantor's "I Fall Down and Go Boom", and The Banjo Kings are two I remember in the collection.

Jon

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Jon Anderson

Really?

Now while I realize you have wanted me to kill file you, so I dont keep bringing up your mental issues...you have become tiresome and boring

And big ugly fat chicks are not what I consider entertaining by any stretch of the imagination..

Gunner

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)

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Gunner Asch

You have no idea what I look like, but you keep having these obsessive psycho-sexual fantasies about me.

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Jessica Wabbit

You know Don, THAT may well become a serious problem what with the way the public schools are going. :-) I have been volunteering in a high school metal shop for about 10 years. ...lew...

Reply to
Lewis Hartswick

In fairness, building a paper tape readier (given the need) is pretty straightforward for anybody reading this newsgroup.

Little bit more of a challenge -- though I do have two turntables.

The audio nutcases (when I say I have two turntables, that doesn't mean I've used them for anything in a decade!).

I do... don't know if it works, though. I don't have a working casette deck.

This would be another easy one.

Anyway, I'm quibbling about some of the formats you've used for examples, but of course your point is completely valid. You didn't even get to the digital magtapes!

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Joe Pfeiffer

How about a claimed motorcycle trip across afghanistan?

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